Carrie Bickmore’s 5yo daughter fell asleep at Taylor Swift concert
“I still haven’t worked out if taking the five-year-old was a smart idea or not”
Radio host Carrie Bickmore attended Taylor Swift’s sell-out Eras show in Melbourne on Friday night with her two daughters, eight-year-old Evie and five-year-old Adelaide.
Carrie and her daughters were joined by Fifi Box and her two kids, Trixie, 11, and four-year-old Daisy.
Appearing on 2DAY FM’s Hughesy, Ed & Erin radio show on Tuesday to talk about the concert, the 43-year-old former host of The Project admitted she had doubts about whether she should’ve taken her youngest daughter to the concert – especially as she slept through half of it.
“That was the first possible error,” confessed Carrie. “I still haven’t worked out if taking the five-year-old was a smart idea or not, but I took my two kids and I went with Fifi and she took her two kids.”
Carrie said Adelaide fell asleep on her during the concert.
“I’ll be honest, the youngest one didn’t last till the end. She slept on me for the last hour and a half.”
However, despite Adelaide snoozing through the second half of the show, the radio host ultimately has no regrets about taking her girls to the conert because they true Swifties.
“Until that point, the pure joy I saw on their faces quite genuinely… Obviously, when you go to a concert yourself that you’re quite passionate about, you feel that joy. I like Taylor but I wasn’t an insane Swiftie like they were,” she said.
“Then when I got there, I just got swept up in it all and it was phenomenal, so I was crying watching them. I have all these videos of them singing – they know every lyric, every song and it was awesome. Everybody was just so generous and friendly and excited It was a really, really lovely experience.”
When Dave Hughes joking asked if she thought about letting Addie “sleep on the concourse for the last hour with a security guard”, so a die-hard fan could have her ticket instead, Carrie said giving away her ticket was never far from her mind.
“The whole time I thought about that because I had every single person in my life asking for tickets. Everybody!” she insisted. “And I took with me one of my friend’s daughters who’s 16, and this is all she’s talked about.
“I thought, should I give my ticket up? But I wanted the girls to experience it together and I’m really glad I did.”
As well as her two daughters who Carrie shares with her former partner Chris Walker, Carrie also shares 16-year-old son Ollie, with her late husband, Greg Lange, who died of brain cancer in 2010.
